Terry Eagleton Quotes

It takes a long time to make it simple.

Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ''Seek simplicity and distrust it.''

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

Simplicity is really hard.

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

It's simple until you make it complicated.

One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.